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  • Personalisation in the criminal justice system: what is the potential?

    15 Apr 2014 10:12 PM | Vicki Henry
    http://criminaljusticealliance.org/Personalisation_in_the_CJS.pdf

  • Let the Burden Fit the Crime: Extending Proportionality Review to Sex Offenders

    31 Mar 2014 3:56 AM | Administrator (Administrator)

    Click here to read "Let the Burden Fit the Crime: Extending Proportionality Review to Sex Offenders"

  • W.A.R. Published Again! We are Pushing Back!

    28 Mar 2014 2:26 PM | Deleted user
      Once again, a news channel tried to put scare tactics out to the public.  This time, W.A.R. was there with a rebuttal!  Our comments were published at the end of this article. 

    http://www.theindychannel.com/news/call-6-investigators/rape-victims-indiana-is-failing

    W.A.R. has vowed to "Push Back" and WE are not going to back down!

    If you have news articles or trailers on a show that will be airing in your community, please let us know by forwarding us a link.  We will respond! It's time WE take a stand!

    W.A.R. Admin Team.

  • WIN!!!! Doe Vs. Massachusetts

    26 Mar 2014 6:32 PM | Deleted user

    http://www.nationallawjournal.com/home/id=1202649110658/Retroactive%20Application%20of%20Sex%20Offender%20Law%20Rejected?mcode=1202615432992&curindex=0&slreturn=20140302050654

     

  • Another New Book! Gov and His Bird, SORNA

    16 Mar 2014 2:08 PM | Deleted user

    Anyone purchasing this booklet will be helping WAR.  WAR will receive a 10% kickback from the funds raised on the purchase!

    Here's the link:

    http://pubslush.com/books/id/2150

  • A WAR Member has a Book!

    14 Mar 2014 6:39 PM | Deleted user
    http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/talking-to-myself/14428059

  • Good News in Vermont!

    13 Mar 2014 3:20 PM | Deleted user

    W.A.R. wants to congratulate Tim on his hard work and efforts in the state of Vermont!  Tim has worked hard at legislative issues this year. Because of his hard work, Tim has managed to get some good news!  Here is his summation:

     

    The S.80 story, by Tim Burgess:
        
    In the 2013 biennium freshman Senator John Rodgers from the Essex/Orleans district and his Senate seat mate introduced S.80.  The stated purpose of this bill according to the legislative website is to "This bill proposes to require community notification when a registered sex offender, whose information must be posted on the Internet, establishes residence in Vermont, registers an address change, or is released from confinement or supervision."  As a registrant, and advocate in Vermont I think that bills like these are not only discriminatory in nature, but have the potential to encourage vigilantism.  

    I followed the Senate action taken on the bill and saw that it was assigned to the Senate Judiciary committee.  The bill was taken up a number of times for discussion in committee.  I sat in on most, if not all of the testimony.  I sat down with Senator Rodgers, and explained how this bill would be detrimental to registered citizens in our State.  I spoke with the chairman of the Senate Judiciary committee, and discussed that I thought that the bill could pose a risk to registrants in Vermont.  Senator Sears, assured me that the bill would not move for the 2013 session due to a hang up with the Auditor of Accounts office.  I then spoke to them to find out that based on an audit from 2009, there were a "significant" amount of issues with the Vermont registry, and that until those problems were resolved the legislature could not move forward.  I spoke to the director of the Vermont ACLU, Alan Gilbert, who opposed the legislation and testified to that fact.  In 2013, the legislation didn't move.

    2014 Session brought the subject around again.  Again, I inquired from Senator Sears (Chair of Senate Judiciary), as to the possibility of movement.  Senator Sears indicated that it was not a priority, as the Auditors office had not made enough progress on the matter.  I followed up with the Auditors office and was informed that it would be June of 2014, before they had the required information.  I then emailed Senator Starr, senior senator from the district, who informed me that the bill would most likely fail to make the crossover deadline, and would most likely "be dead".

  • Victory for Indiana Juveniles

    12 Mar 2014 4:03 PM | Deleted user
    From one of our legal beagles.............
     
    His Summary:
    This says that you can't force a kid into a treatment facility and force him to talk about his other offenses and take polygraphs and then use that information against him. Here, the boy revealed that he had molested two (2) other children, but it was admitted during the course of treatment that he had to comply with. The prosecutor used that information as the basis to file additional charges and the court said, "not so fast."
     
    This is the argument I have been using for years about adult sex offender treatment. People have been charged with talking about their other victims to try to get help and ended up getting charged with new crimes. They have also been violated on probation/parole for admitting to having relapses. Instead of being able to get help for, say, buying or view porn or driving by a school with temptations, they were instead violated.
     
    Kids have special protection under the juvenile mental health act, but adults don't. So, that makes treatment very ineffective when one has to constantly think if what they say may land them with more charges.
     
    One Step Forward people!  One step at a time!
    Together, WE can make a difference!

  • W.A.R. takes to the Air Waves!

    10 Mar 2014 10:27 PM | Deleted user
    "It Could Be You", a talk-radio program on Little Rock, Arkansas, station KABF 88.3 FM ("The Voice of the People") airs Wednesdays 2:00--3:00 PM Central Time.  "It Could Be You" is a forum through which social justice organizations, criminal justice reform organizations, community activists, and persons and organizations providing help to those in need can discuss their work, their goals, and how the public can contact them, offer their assistance, or more effectively reach out to the underserved in the community, the state, or across the nation.  This program welcomes guests who work to increase knowledge of and/or advocate reforms in fields including but not limited to social services, ensuring public safety, homelessness, ex-felons' re-entry into society, and the problems and controversies surrounding sex offender laws and issues.  Guests and topics that currently or will in any way touch on situations, problems, and the need for social justice and reforms within the KABF listening area are especially welcome.

    On Wednesday, March 12, 2014, "It Could Be You" welcomes Vicki Henry and Kimberly DuBina, who are vital driving forces for Women Against the Registry (WAR).  Arkansas Time After Time (ATAT) executive director and Arkansas WAR "go-to person" Carla Swanson will join program host John S. in-studio to discuss what WAR is all about, the work WAR does, and how WAR raises public awareness about the seriously flawed laws concerning sex offenders and the impacts such laws have on registrant families.

    Anyone outside the KABF broadcast area can access "It Could Be You" by visiting www.kabf.org and clicking on the live streaming link. 

  • Editorial was published and aired two nights on News Channel 14

    22 Feb 2014 8:07 PM | Deleted user

    Taking a Stand: Women Against Registry responds to our 14 News investigation

    Posted: Feb 21, 2014 4:22 PM Updated: Feb 21, 2014 4:54 PM
    By Nick Ulmer - email
    Posted by Audra Levy - bio | email
     
         
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    In this week's Taking a Stand, Vicki Henry with Women Against Registry has a response to our 14 News investigation of sex offenders and school bus stops.

    The Women Against Registry is based out of Washington, D.C., but she e-mailed her response to us; Vicki wrote the following:

    If we think about registered sex offenders at all, most of us fear them as monsters who have committed terrible sexual crimes against innocent children and are people who need to be carefully watched when released to make sure our children aren't hurt again.

    Nobody wants to protect children more than the members of Women Against Registry. Women Against Registry, or WAR, is the voice of millions of innocent women and children who are wrongly and unfairly punished because we have a family member who has completed their debt to society but now must face a life of unemployment, homelessness, and despair. As registered sex offenders they are targeted for harassment and abuse, can't get a job, and many cases, can't even rejoin their own homes. Too many of our husbands, fathers and sons are getting caught up in this registration hysteria even if the offense they committed was minor and years ago.

    As the president of WAR, Vicki Henry, says, "In the vast majority of registration cases we're talking about dumb childish mistakes-offenses like public urination, teen age consensual sex, sexting, lewd behavior, taking pictures of your own children in the bath tub, and clicking on the wrong link on a website.  Less than two percent of violent sexual offenses are committed by perfect strangers. It is time to stop acting hysterically in the name of protecting children; it's time stop public registration of sex offenders and to start treating this serious problem rationally."

    Copyright 2014 WFIE. All rights reserved.

    Link:

    Taking a Stand: Women Against Registry responds to our 14 News investigation

    Posted: Feb 21, 2014 4:22 PM Updated: Feb 21, 2014 4:54 PM

    By Nick Ulmer - email
    Posted by Audra Levy - bio | email

     
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    EVANSVILLE, IN (WFIE) -

    In this week's Taking a Stand, Vicki Henry with Women Against Registry has a response to our 14 News investigation of sex offenders and school bus stops.

    The Women Against Registry is based out of Washington, D.C., but she e-mailed her response to us; Vicki wrote the following:

    If we think about registered sex offenders at all, most of us fear them as monsters who have committed terrible sexual crimes against innocent children and are people who need to be carefully watched when released to make sure our children aren't hurt again.

    Nobody wants to protect children more than the members of Women Against Registry. Women Against Registry, or WAR, is the voice of millions of innocent women and children who are wrongly and unfairly punished because we have a family member who has completed their debt to society but now must face a life of unemployment, homelessness, and despair. As registered sex offenders they are targeted for harassment and abuse, can't get a job, and many cases, can't even rejoin their own homes. Too many of our husbands, fathers and sons are getting caught up in this registration hysteria even if the offense they committed was minor and years ago.

    As the president of WAR, Vicki Henry, says, "In the vast majority of registration cases we're talking about dumb childish mistakes-offenses like public urination, teen age consensual sex, sexting, lewd behavior, taking pictures of your own children in the bath tub, and clicking on the wrong link on a website.  Less than two percent of violent sexual offenses are committed by perfect strangers. It is time to stop acting hysterically in the name of protecting children; it's time stop public registration of sex offenders and to start treating this serious problem rationally."

    Copyright 2014 WFIE. All rights reserved.

     

    Link:  http://www.14news.com/story/24789519/taking-a-stand-women-against-registry-respond-to-our-14-news-investigation

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